Community Impact
Profile of a Veteran: Jordan Dean, UConn Medical Student
Jordan Dean is a second-year UConn medical student who served in the U.S. Air Force for eight years, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. He shares his perspective as a veteran and physician in training.
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Awards UConn Health’s Dr. Genice Nelson
For more than two decades, Genice Nelson has been providing a voice, respect, and high quality care to sickle cell patients: “I saw that patients with sickle cell really need a voice. I felt like I could be that voice.”
Science in Seconds: Oyster Restoration
UConn Marine Science researcher Zofia Baumann has her eyes set on restoring Connecticut’s oyster populations
‘The Problem is Nature Just Isn’t Natural Anymore’
As Connecticut’s trees are pushed to the brink by climate change, UConn researchers are working to help make New England woodlands more resilient
Ross and Becky Person Provide a Lifetime of Support to Extension & 4-H
Life-long 4-H volunteers turn their love of Extension into programs that benefit their whole community
UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Provides Opening Remarks at the First U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
The historic inaugural symposium was held on October 12 –14 in Nairobi, Kenya.
UConn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Announce Partnership for Research and Innovation
An agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory leverages scientific collaboration to research renewable energy technologies at the Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park
Smart Responses to Immediate Needs: Assessing the Scale of CT’s Urban Heat
CIRCA researchers are working to pinpoint the hottest spots in cities and help direct mitigation and policy strategies and build resilience in a changing climate
‘No One is Expecting You to Be Perfect’
UConn's Recovery Community Center offers a supportive space for students, faculty, staff, and allies
The Travails of an Alewife: Dams, Drought, and Climate Change
UConn researchers are studying the alewife – a threatened species and vital food web component -- for clues on how CT waterways and their inhabitants will adapt to climate change